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Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš has won the Czech Republic parliamentary elections, preliminary results show, but fallen short of the overall majority.

In June 2024, Austria revoked the accreditation of two correspondents for the state-controlled Russian news agency TASS — Ivan Popov and Arina Davidyan — on the suspicion that they were not journalists, but spies for the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service.

Taiwan has pledged to resist pressure from Washington to move half of its chip production capacity to the United States, challenging the Trump administration.

Namibia has deployed hundreds of soldiers as part of efforts to contain wildfires that have burned through around a third of the territory of one of the largest game reserves in Africa.

Police have made several arrests in Trafalgar Square during what organizers hoped would be the largest demonstration yet against a ban on the outlawed organization Palestine Action.

A man has been killed and hundreds of thousands of homes on the island of Ireland are without power after Storm Amy caused widespread disruption on Friday.

Two grandparents who murdered their two-year-old grandson after subjecting him to a campaign of abuse have been jailed for 40 years.

A British man was found dead at a hotel in Dubai after swallowing several packages of drugs.

Montenegro’s Constitutional Court has temporarily suspended a ruling to extradite Wang Shuiming, a man who was previously convicted in Singapore’s largest ever money laundering case and is currently wanted on separate charges in China.

Belgian police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators outside the European Union’s headquarters in Brussels on Thursday night, breaking up a protest against Israel’s interception of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla and the arrests of activists aboard.

Strong winds and heavy rain were causing further disruption as Storm Amy hit large parts of the UK on Saturday.

A New York federal judge has sentenced Sean "Diddy" Combs to four years and two months in prison following his conviction this summer on federal prostitution-related charges.

The name of Oleg Tsyura has resurfaced at the centre of a scandal involving former head of the State Property Fund, Dmytro Sennychenko, and multi-billion schemes that cost Ukraine over ten billion hryvnias.

A man in his 80s has died after being hit by a police vehicle that was on an emergency call.

A self-proclaimed satanist actor who claimed he made a pact with a “red-horned devil” has been found guilty of possessing extreme right-wing material.

A 19-year-old man has died from “significant” injuries after a car he was in failed to stop for police and crashed in north London.

A hacking group claims to have extracted data from a GitLab instance associated with Red Hat’s consulting business, obtaining 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers.

Czechs have begun voting in an election likely to oust their centre-right government, with polls favouring the populist billionaire Andrej Babiš to return to power on pledges to raise wages and improve growth while reducing aid for Ukraine.

The Manchester synagogue terrorist was on police bail for an alleged rape when he carried out the attack, the Guardian can reveal.

Russia is attempting to jam UK military satellites on a regular basis, according to the head of the UK Space Command.

The captain of a suspected “shadow fleet” oil tanker detained off the coast of France will go on trial in February, accused of failing to cooperate with authorities.

The director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library has left his position after opposing the gift of a sword from the collection to King Charles during Donald Trump’s recent state visit, according to US media reports on Thursday.

When Jarred Shaw, an American basketball player in Indonesia, stepped down to the lobby in his flat complex earlier this year to collect a package containing illegally imported cannabis gummies, he thought that the medicine to ease his Crohn’s disease had arrived.